The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”

The Pentagon is one of 31 government sites that are receiving $104 million in Energy Department grants that are expected to double the amount of carbon-free electricity at federal facilities and create 27 megawatts of clean-energy capacity while leveraging more than $361 million in private investment, the Energy Department said.

The solar panels are among several improvements set for the Pentagon, which also will install a heat pump system and solar thermal panels to reduce reliance on natural gas and fuel oil combustion systems

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    10 months ago

    This is the true consequence of half measures. They take up the space where a full measure could have been made, and steal the impetus a full measure requires.

    Social security was a full measure. It covered all Americans. It did the entire job it set out to do.

    It is an example of a full measure.

    The postal service is a full measure. It doesn’t cover some of the addresses. It cover all of them.

    The American public school system covers all students.

    That is what I mean by a full measure and the equate that to facism is beyond idiotic.